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The Weekly Retro Movie Rundown 152
Captain's hat! It's only the bloomin' weekend again!
Boarding passes and passports at the ready, we find ourselves in a departure lounge ready and waiting to be launched to far and distant lands with our fellow passengers. We'll check in our heavy bags before lining up to eagerly board our flight, find our seat and buckle up. We'll pay close attention to the safety briefing like catching a pinnacle moment in a top action film. Just like some of our favourite titles, we'll be quickly blasted into another world where anything is possible and we can escape the low lights of our old lives, if just for a moment.
SATURDAY 20th JUNE
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California Man (1992) Film4 11:00am-1:00pm (2 hours)
The Weekly Retro Movie Rundown 144
Thor's Hammer! It's only the weekend again??!
Like most superheroes in the land, we once again find ourselves donning the Lycra as we prepare ourselves for battle against evil, the forces of nature and of course some pesky weekend boredom. We'll pull our laces up extra tight, adjust our cape before heading off into the sky with lightning speed to face any number of perils while the rest of civilization does their uppermost to capture our heroic deeds onto celluloid wonder for the world to see and unmask our identity.
Have a happy retro weekend!
SATURDAY 25th APRIL
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The Weekly Retro Movie Rundown! Easter Weekend Special
Easter Bunny's tail! It's on the bank holiday weekend!
Like the busy little bunny themselves, we've been hopping our way around the moviesphere, reaching high and low for the most tasty and awesome retro movies for all your eager hunters to get your hands on. Creeping around the wilderness, we'll stumble across some of the best that this weekend has to offer, before taking them home, unwrapping and gorging ourselves on top classic film goodness until we're fit to burst!
Have a happy retro weekend!
FRIDAY 3rd April
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80s Classic Flick Labryinth Turns 28 Years Old Today! + Facebook Comp!
Can you believe it! Henson meets Bowie (Jareth) classic Labyrinth was first released in the US today back in 1986! Scary to think!
This cult icon well known for those trousers it's quirky story line and of course classic characters has been a firm favourite for many 80s kids and of course generations after and it's not hard to see why!
Although initially this flick was seen as a commercial hiccup, not even grossing half of it's $25million budget in the cinemas, Labyrinth gained a strong cult following and has been widely known as one of the best films from the 80s ever since.
A staggering 28 tears on (oh how old do we feel!) this film is still going strong in the eyes of many and is certainly still in all of our top lists.
The classic story follows 15 years old Sarah accidentally wishes her baby half-brother, Toby, away to the Goblin King Jareth (David Bowie). Jareth tells Sarah that he will give back her brother if she can solve his super high-tech and oh-so 80s Labyrinth within just thirteen hours. He then whisks them both off to the Labyrinth, leaving Sarah there to start her quest.
She quickly meets Hoggle, a grumpy and obstinate dwarf who initially refuses to help her. Soon after Sarah has trapped herself in an oubliette. Jareth sends Hoggle into the oubliette to free Sarah and sneakily misdirect her back to the beginning of the labyrinth. However, Sarah makes a trade with Hoggle while in the oubliette, and convinces him to take her as far as he can through the Labyrinth instead.
1-2-3-4-5, 6-7-8-9-10, 11, 12... Things I hope you didn't know about Sesame Street!
My blog post today is bought to you by the letter L. L is for love and down here at TruffleShuffle we love Sesame Street almost as much as we love t-shirts!
Incase rocking your latest Sesame Street related vintage t-shirt wasn't enough to show your appreciation for the Street, we thought we'd arm you with 12 killer facts you probably didn't know to impress your mates with down the pub....
Happy Birthday Labyrinth!! Did you know....
Twenty-seven years ago today, a Jim Henson-directed fantasy movie called Labyrinth was released and... well, quickly became a bit of a box office disaster. This strange movie, about a girl (Jennifer Connelly) searching for her baby brother who's been kidnapped by a goblin king (David Bowie), was maybe a little too weird for mainstream audiences at the time.
But thankfully over the last 27 years whether it was due to the amazing creatures and sets or to Bowieâs extraordinary wig and lunchbox, it's really gathered a strong following and you only need to see the popularity of our Labyrinth T-Shirts to know this movie has definitely become a cult classic, and for good reason. Labyrinth is one of the last non-animated films of the pre-computer age. Yes, there is probably a few computer effects used in the film, but when you consider that 1986 was also the year that Pixar released Luxo Jr., marking the beginning of a computer animation revolution, Labyrinth's props-and-puppets approach to imaginative filmmaking feels like something of an to an era in film making.
To celebrate this fantastic mile-stone (yes, it makes me feel old too) I thought I'd give you 10 interesting facts surrounding Labyrinth, so enough gas-bagging as we only have 13 hours to reach Goblin City, after allâ¦.
1 - The screenplay went through 25 drafts, mostly to inject songs and more humour to ensure legendary pop star David Bowie would agree to star as antagonist Jareth the Goblin King.